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No. Housing  Finance Companies, Merchant Banking Companies, Stock 
Exchanges, Companies  engaged in the business of 
stock-broking/sub-broking, Venture Capital Fund  Companies, Nidhi 
Companies, Insurance companies and Chit Fund Companies are  NBFCs but 
they have been exempted from the requirement of registration under  
Section 45-IA of the RBI Act, 1934 subject to certain conditions.
Housing  Finance Companies are regulated by 
National Housing Bank, Merchant  Banker/Venture Capital Fund 
Company/stock-exchanges/stock brokers/sub-brokers  are regulated by 
Securities and Exchange Board of India, and Insurance  companies are 
regulated by Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority.  Similarly,
 Chit Fund Companies are regulated by the respective State  Governments 
and Nidhi Companies are regulated by Ministry of Corporate Affairs,  
Government of India. Companies that do financial business but are 
regulated by  other regulators are given specific exemption by the 
Reserve Bank from its  regulatory requirements for avoiding duality of 
regulation.
It may also be mentioned that  Mortgage Guarantee Companies have 
been notified as Non-Banking Financial  Companies under Section 45 
I(f)(iii) of the RBI Act, 1934. Core Investment Companies with asset 
size of less  than ? 100 crore, and those with asset size of ? 100 crore
 and above but  not accessing public funds are exempted from 
registration with the RBI.
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 What are the different types/categories of NBFCs registered with RBI?
NBFCs  are categorized a) in terms of the type of liabilities 
into Deposit and  Non-Deposit accepting NBFCs, b) non deposit taking 
NBFCs by their size into  systemically important and other non-deposit 
holding companies (NBFC-NDSI and  NBFC-ND) and c) by the kind of 
activity they conduct. Within this broad  categorization the different 
types of NBFCs are as follows:
I. Asset Finance Company (AFC) :  An AFC is a company which is a 
financial institution carrying on as its  principal business the 
financing of physical assets supporting  productive/economic activity, 
such as automobiles, tractors, lathe machines,  generator sets, earth 
moving and material handling equipments, moving on own  power and 
general purpose industrial machines. Principal business for this  
purpose is defined as aggregate of financing real/physical assets 
supporting  economic activity and income arising therefrom is not less 
than 60% of its  total assets and total income respectively. 
II. Investment Company (IC) : IC  means any company which is a 
financial institution carrying on as its principal  business the 
acquisition of securities,
III. Loan Company (LC): LC means  any company which is a 
financial institution carrying on as its principal  business the 
providing of finance whether by making loans or advances or  otherwise 
for any activity other than its own but does not include an Asset  
Finance Company.
IV. Infrastructure Finance Company  (IFC): IFC is a non-banking 
finance company a) which deploys at least 75 per  cent of its total 
assets in infrastructure loans, b) has a minimum Net Owned  Funds of ? 
300 crore, c) has a minimum credit rating of ‘A ‘or equivalent d)  and a
 CRAR of 15%.
V. Systemically Important Core  Investment Company (CIC-ND-SI): 
CIC-ND-SI is an NBFC carrying on the business  of acquisition of shares 
and securities which satisfies the following  conditions:-
(a) it holds not less than 90% of its Total Assets in the form of investment in equity shares, preference shares, debt or loans in group companies;(b) its investments in the equity shares (including instruments compulsorily convertible into equity shares within a period not exceeding 10 years from the date of issue) in group companies constitutes not less than 60% of its Total Assets;(c) it does not trade in its investments in shares, debt or loans in group companies except through block sale for the purpose of dilution or disinvestment;(d) it does not carry on any other financial activity referred to in Section 45I(c) and 45I(f) of the RBI act, 1934 except investment in bank deposits, money market instruments, government securities, loans to and investments in debt issuances of group companies or guarantees issued on behalf of group companies.(e) Its asset size is ? 100 crore or above and(f) It accepts public funds
VI. Infrastructure Debt Fund: Non-  Banking Financial Company 
(IDF-NBFC) : IDF-NBFC is a company registered as NBFC  to facilitate the
 flow of long term debt into infrastructure projects. IDF-NBFC  raise 
resources through issue of Rupee or Dollar denominated bonds of minimum 5
  year maturity. Only Infrastructure Finance Companies (IFC) can sponsor
  IDF-NBFCs.
VII. Non-Banking Financial Company - Micro Finance  Institution 
(NBFC-MFI): NBFC-MFI is a non-deposit taking NBFC having not less  than 
85% of its assets in the nature of qualifying assets which satisfy the  
following criteria: 
a. loan disbursed by an NBFC-MFI to a borrower with a rural household annual income not exceeding ? 1,00,000 or urban and semi-urban household income not exceeding ? 1,60,000;b. loan amount does not exceed ? 50,000 in the first cycle and ? 1,00,000 in subsequent cycles;c. total indebtedness of the borrower does not exceed ? 1,00,000;d. tenure of the loan not to be less than 24 months for loan amount in excess of ? 15,000 with prepayment without penalty;e. loan to be extended without collateral;f. aggregate amount of loans, given for income generation, is not less than 50 per cent of the total loans given by the MFIs;g. loan is repayable on weekly, fortnightly or monthly instalments at the choice of the borrower
VIII. Non-Banking Financial Company  – Factors (NBFC-Factors): 
NBFC-Factor is a non-deposit taking NBFC engaged in  the principal 
business of factoring. The financial assets in the factoring  business 
should constitute at least 50 percent of its total assets and its  
income derived from factoring business should not be less than 50 
percent of  its gross income.
IX. Mortgage Guarantee Companies  (MGC) - MGC are financial 
institutions  for which at least 90% of the business turnover is 
mortgage guarantee business  or at least 90% of the gross income is from
 mortgage guarantee business and net  owned fund is ? 100 crore.
X. NBFC- Non-Operative Financial Holding Company (NOFHC) is  
financial institution through which promoter / promoter groups will be  
permitted to set up a new bank .It’s a wholly-owned Non-Operative 
Financial  Holding Company (NOFHC) which will hold the bank as well as 
all other financial  services companies regulated by RBI or other 
financial sector regulators, to  the extent permissible under the 
applicable regulatory prescriptions. 
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